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New Criticism excluded factors such as an author's biographical details, historical circumstances and other so-called extratextual materials to arrive at an interpretation.
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To be marketable the new cultural works will have to provoke and reward collective meaning production through elaborate back stories, unresolved enigmas, excess information, and extratextual expansions of the program universe.
fans: mobilize a conversation / what consumes me, bud caddell 2009
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By evening's end, the crowd is on the side of the performer-inmates, even though many admit their crimes during the various extratextual scenes.
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"Pulp all biographies," he declared, and insisted that one should - and he did - make all of his judgments about books with no help from any extratextual knowledge or context, certainly not biography or history "excruciatingly boring".
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The job of a translator is to deactivate that mine field of extratextual references.
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But it all falls apart when considering the extratextual reality, which is simple: The Colbert Report has made kings and magic both, simply by mashing the personal and political into a digestible, hilarious and, most importantly, understandable narrative for mass consumption.
Scott Thill: Roll Call Slams The Colbert Report. Bears Win. 2008
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This principle - that the original understanding of the term "the judicial power" supports extratextual content - has far-reaching possibilities.
First day. Ann Althouse 2007
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But that JK would make such an extratextual revelation.
A Real Conversation, Slightly Fictionalized for Dramatic Purposes « Whatever 2007
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As such we are dealing with no ordinary crime novel, but rather a complex, intertextual and extratextual, literary work.
Archive 2006-03-01 Miglior acque 2006
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As such we are dealing with no ordinary crime novel, but rather a complex, intertextual and extratextual, literary work.
Cormac Millar, The Grounds (Penguin, 2006) Miglior acque 2006
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